Washington, DC…By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 740 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act (Public Law 93-198), as amended (section 740 of the Home Rule Act), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Crime is out of control in the District of Columbia. Washington, District of Columbia, is our Nation’s capital and home to the central institutions of American governance. Yet rising violence in the capital now urgently endangers public servants, citizens, and tourists, disrupts safe and secure transportation and the proper functioning of the Federal Government, and forces the diversion of critical public resources toward emergency response and security measures. The city government’s failure to maintain public order and safety has had a dire impact on the Federal Government’s ability to operate efficiently to address the Nation’s broader interests without fear of our workers being subjected to rampant violence.
The increase in violent crime in the heart of our Republic has consequences beyond the individual tragedies that have dominated media coverage. Such lawlessness also poses intolerable risks to the vital Federal functions that take place in the District of Columbia. Violence and crime hamper the recruitment and retention of essential Federal employees, undermine critical functions of Government and thus the well-being of the entire Nation, and erode confidence in the strength of the United States. These conditions are disgraceful anywhere, but particularly in the capital of our Nation and the seat of the Federal Government. Citizens, tourists, and Federal workers deserve peace and security, not fear and violence. The smooth functioning of executive departments and agencies, courts, diplomatic missions, and the Federal Government demands an effective law-enforcement mechanism capable of halting the precipitous rise in violent crime, not one that permits Government workers to be violently attacked by mobs or fatally shot close to the Federal buildings where they work.
The magnitude of the violent crime crisis places the District of Columbia among the most violent jurisdictions in the United States. In 2024, the District of Columbia averaged one of the highest robbery and murder rates of large cities nationwide. Indeed, the District of Columbia now has a higher violent crime, murder, and robbery rate than all 50 States, recording a homicide rate in 2024 of 27.54 per 100,000 residents. It also experienced the Nation’s highest vehicle theft rate with 842.4 thefts per 100,000 residents — over three times the national average of 250.2 thefts per 100,000 residents. The District of Columbia is, by some measures, among the top 20 percent of the most dangerous cities in the world.
As President, I have a solemn duty to take care that our laws are faithfully executed, and a sacred responsibility to protect the safety and security of United States citizens who live in and visit our Nation’s capital, including Federal workers who live or commute into the District of Columbia. These conditions cannot persist. We will make the District of Columbia one of the safest cities in the world, not the most dangerous.
Sec. 2. Services of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. I determine that special conditions of an emergency nature exist that require the use of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (Metropolitan Police force) for Federal purposes, including maintaining law and order in the Nation’s seat of Government; protecting Federal buildings, national monuments, and other Federal property; and ensuring conditions necessary for the orderly functioning of the Federal Government. Effective immediately, the Mayor of the District of Columbia (Mayor) shall provide the services of the Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes for the maximum period permitted under section 740 of the Home Rule Act.
Sec. 3. Operational Control of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. (a) The authority of the President conferred by section 740(a) of the Home Rule Act to direct the Mayor with respect to the current special conditions of an emergency nature is delegated to the Attorney General.
(b) In accordance with section 740(a) of the Home Rule Act, the Mayor shall provide such services of the Metropolitan Police force as the Attorney General may deem necessary and appropriate.
Sec. 4. Monitoring and Recommendations. (a) The Attorney General shall monitor and regularly consult with any senior official the Attorney General deems appropriate on the special conditions of an emergency nature that exist in the District of Columbia that require the use of the Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes.
(b) The Attorney General shall regularly update me on the status of the special conditions of an emergency nature that exist in the District of Columbia that require the use of the Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes.
(c) The Attorney General shall inform me of any circumstances that, in the Attorney General’s opinion, might indicate the need for further action by the President or that the action in this order is no longer necessary.
Sec. 5. Severability. If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any individual or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of its other provisions to any other individuals or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Justice.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
August 11, 2025.
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Violent Crime in D.C. Hits 30 Year Low
Friday, January 3, 2025
WASHINGTON – Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and announced by United States Attorney Matthew M. Graves.
In addition to the overall violent crime reduction, homicides are down 32%; robberies are down 39%; armed carjackings are down 53%; assaults with a dangerous weapon are down 27% when compared with 2023 levels, with the District reporting the fewest assaults with dangerous weapons and burglaries in over 30 years.
“The strategy this Office began to employ shortly after I came into this role has been to work with our law enforcement partners to focus on the drivers of violence – those gangs or crews of people who are dealing drugs, protecting turf, committing carjackings and other robberies, all while armed,” said U.S. Attorney Graves. “It takes time to develop these investigations and prosecutions, but this is the fruit of that labor – a reduction in the violent crime – that D.C. is now seeing.”
A central component of this strategy has been targeting those crews who have preyed upon certain neighborhoods in our community, often operating drug trafficking networks in these neighborhoods. These proactive investigations and prosecutions have yielded immediate reductions in violence that have had lasting impact. For instance, an MPD analysis of crime trends in the area around MLK Mellon before and after a crew operating a drug market in that area was arrested revealed that there was a 66% reduction in violent crime in the area when comparing the six months prior to the arrests to the six months after the arrests. Even two years after these arrests, there was a 56% reduction in the number of homicides that occurred after the arrests when compared to the two years before.
Another key component of this proactive approach was implementing in April 2022, Project Safe Neighborhood – a daily review by the Office and our law enforcement partners of every firearms arrest in the District to determine, using objective criteria about the person arrested and the firearm recovered, whether the case should be charged in U.S. District Court or D.C. Superior Court. Since April 2022, the Office has accepted for prosecution in U.S. District Court more than 150 gun offenders under this initiative.
Finally, the Office has continued to do all that it can to hold accountable those who commit violent crimes with firearms and those who illegally possess firearms. And the Office has committed to provide on a quarterly basis data related to these efforts – data that can be found here. This data reflects that in the first half of 2024, the Office was able to charge at the time of arrest more than 90% of arrests for violent crimes committed with guns and nearly 70% of gun possession arrests. The Office continues to investigate many of these arrests even if it does not charge on the day of arrest. Also in the first half of 2024, the Office obtained convictions in approximately 75% of these gun-related cases.
These numbers related to firearms offenses are critical and stand in stark contrast to the overall day-of-arrest charging rate for every arrest in the District of Columbia, which is a significantly less informative metric. The vast majority of arrests in the District of Columbia are for misdemeanor offenses that are often non-violent in nature. For such offenses, the Office has had a longstanding practice of giving great weight to victims’ wishes about whether they want charges brought. For a variety of reasons, a substantial number of victims do not want criminal charges brought for these relatively minor offenses.
In Fiscal Year 2019, the Office expanded into a new section the number of prosecutors devoted to reviewing arrests and examining body-worn camera (BWC) footage – Fiscal Year 2018 was the first Fiscal Year where BWC had been fully deployed for the entire year – to determine whether the BWC footage reflected issues that would later require the Office to dismiss a prosecution or if there were otherwise fatal flaws with the case. This section is called the Early Case Assessment Section (ECAS). The combination of BWC footage and ECAS’s early detection of arrests that, if charged, would later need to be dismissed led to relatively modest decreases in cases charged at the time of arrest in Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019.
The overall day-of-arrest charging rate dropped dramatically in Fiscal Years 2020, 2021, and 2022, as the global pandemic brought the criminal justice system to a halt and the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences lost its accreditation in 2021.
Our Office, along with our local partners, worked to overcome these challenges and the overall day-of-arrest charging rate in Fiscal Year 2024 of 57% is virtually identical to the 54% day-of-arrest charging rate that the Office reported in Fiscal Year 2019 after forming ECAS. More significantly, though, the Office dismissed far fewer of the cases it charged in Fiscal Year 2024 than it did in Fiscal Year 2018, so more arrests resulted in a prosecutorial outcome in Fiscal Year 2024 than in Fiscal Year 2018. For felonies, in particular, the percentage of cases with a prosecutorial outcome rose from 66% in Fiscal Year 2018 to 85% in Fiscal Year 2024.
There is value in addressing the issues, such as the lack of drug testing, that were preventing our Office from charging, at the time-of-arrest, non-violent misdemeanor offenses. While charging more non-violent offenses can benefit the community and offenders are often sentenced to periods of probation with services that hopefully aid in rehabilitation, these cases typically do not identify and remove violent offenders from the community. As is universally recognized, targeting the relatively limited number of individuals responsible for driving gun violence is the most impactful thing that prosecutors can do to contribute to the kinds of sharp declines in violent crime the District saw in 2024. To that end, multiple proactive investigations are already underway that should further reduce violent crime in 2025.
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The don is domestic enemy #1.
With a billionaire owned Republican party and courts, the don has lost most US export markets in beef, pork, poultry, milk.
Farms are going bankrupt as commodity prices crash, all from the taco don’s attack on America.
The US also has lost oil, gas exports, as Canada has taken over that energy sector, due to the taco tariff ego play.
Today he again did a taco with China- a 90 day exception.
This is no way to conduct trade. The markets abhor chaos, the taco don’s trademark.
Now the don is distracting from his attack on America, and the Epstein pedo crimes with a false take over of Washington.
A big lie, just because big balls got beat up by who knows?
His take over of the DC police and deployment of our Nat Guard, is the trademark of a dictator a role he envies.
How long will the Republicans allow this attack on America?
It appears the Republicans relish an authoritarian government no democracy.
Why do they allow what this mentally ill con ruin America except for Putin, who groomed him since the 1980’s.
President Obama and Hillary will be answering questions, under oath about their hatching the RussianGate Collusion Hoax
Obama, and the Clinton’s going down in History as the Biggest Political Scandal and as Traitors against our Country and Democracy.
The Democrat Party, the Party of the Klu Klux Klan, the Party who wants to commit Genocide against the Jewish, The Party of Hatred and Violence against anyone who disagrees with them.
No wonder you lost the Presidency, the House The Senate and your party has THE LOWEST APPROVAL RATING IN YOUR ENTIRE, PATHETIC HISTORY!!!
The same party that is 90% of our entire penal population. I guess that’s why your politicians always try to give voting rights too.
LOSERS…EVERY…SINGLE…ONE…OF…YOU.
THIS IS EVEN BETTER NEWS!!!
I heard Hillary Clinton’s lawyers had a meeting with Pam Bondi asking if the DOJ would give her full immunity if she testified about the Russian Collusion hoax and President Obama’s paticular role in it.
They were turned down, the reasoning is because President Obama has Presidential immunity, Hillary Clinton has none.
Man, things are just moving on Full Steam ahead under our New and Improved America under President Trump.
Justice is finally being served against those who illegally used our Justice System against others. Having fair tariffs has already brought in 10’s of Billions of Dollars for America. Bidenflation is way down. The first year alone under Biden cost every American family $10,000.
Isn’t Making America Great Again the best thing that has happened in decades!! Or as CNN put it, probably the best thing in a century or perhaps a CENTURY AND A HALF!! Wow, this is so wonderful!
And besides Loretta James being investigated for multiple crimes, and Adam Schiff for lying on multiple bank loans, President Trump is asking, VERY OUT-LOUD, is Nancy Pelosi and her husband are being looked at for Insider Trading. It seems they have made more money, better estimates on stock than anyone out of the thousands of people on Wall Street. I think a Grand Jury would find the Pelosi’s are as corrupt as Hillary, Hunter Biden, the previous DOJ and the top FBI officials who went after Biden’s political rivals, or who spoke against the alleged fake Hunter laptop, parents of school kids who spoke out against covid. Or the Christian schools being targeted, or Christians themselves. Of letting antisemitism run wild on our streets, in our schools.
Justice is coming down on many of these democrats who in reality are hard-core socialist scum.
THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR BRINGING BACK OUR RIGHTS, OUR CONSTITUTION, FROM THE SOCIALIST CULT, OF THE LAST ADMINISTRATION.
YIPPEE DOOO AMERICA IS BACK WITH ACTUAL ADULTS IN THE ROOM INSTEAD OF A DEMENTIA PATIENT AND A BUNCH OF DEI HIRES. 🙂
This world only exists in your right wing info bubble. Hope that helps!!
Off topic, but what if Kamala had used public funds to raise the water level to make her kayak vacation more fun?
Kamala has been in any body of water for decades, she stinks worse then a full tuna boat with no refrigeration.
Kamala hasn’t stepped in a body of water in decades. She smells worse than a full tuna boat with no refrigeration.
So you’re ok with JD Vance changing the water level for his kayak vacation? Seems wrong to me for any VP to do that.
All this because Big Balls got his ass kicked by some teenagers?
For those who don’t know: Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online was beat up by a couple of 14 year olds, a boy and a girl, when the attempted to take his car. Now trump has taken over the dc police and deployed the fbi and national guard. Seems like a little much.
It wasnt his car you ignorant dunce. According to the lady with her children, the ones targeted, there were at least 8 teenagers in 3 different cars, and he went to protect her and the kids, no car jacked because he stepped in.
Democrats just can’t tell the truth, another reason your party lost by a landslide and never even won a single swing state in the election.
That was the funniest, greatest ass kicking. How embarrassing to be a dimocrat, lowest ratings in your history because of the lying and corruption.
Everyone involved is a teenager. Big balls is only 19.
No matter the details of the incident, this is an extreme overreaction.
Big Balls was out at 3am soliciting an underage hooker and was beaten by her pimp
Hillary got beat up?
Let’s distract with anything. Release the Epstein criminal information. Transparency is what everyone said. This is not going away …
The Daily Mail
12:23 EDT 10 Aug 2025, updated 12:42 EDT 10 Aug 2025
By VICTORIA CHURCHILL , US POLITICAL REPORTER
Vice President JD Vance has added fuel to the GOP’s investigation into former President Bill and First Lady Hillary Clinton’s ties to former financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
During an appearance on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, Vance told host Maria Bartiromo that ‘We know Clinton allegedly went to Epstein’s infamous ‘island 26 times, 28 times.’
The vice president also added that it was ‘totally appropriate’ for House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) ‘to be asking what was going on on that island.’
Comer issued deposition subpoenas on Tuesday to Former President Bill Clinton and Former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton, who have been called to appear before his Committee in October.”The Democrats have tried to make this Epstein thing about anything but the fact that Democrat billionaires and Democrat political leaders went to Epstein island all the time, who knows what they did, it’s totally reasonable to ask these questions,’ Vance told Bartiromo.
What you saw in the House’s subpoena is, they’re trying to investigate all of the things related to this particular case. I know a lot of Americans want answers, I certainly want answers, and I think James Comer and the team in the House, they’re doing the right thing,’ Vance added during his segment.
Several former Trump-era Department of Justice officials, as well as historical Democrat power players, were subpoenaed over the files as well.
Attorneys General Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions, who served under President Trump during his first term, are among the Republicans who have been subpoenaed for testimony.
It’s a spectacular move by Republicans to pressure Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi to put out more documents as the administration has been embroiled in controversy over Epstein ‘cover-up’ claims.
House Republicans voted in favor of subpoenaing former President Bill Clinton and his wife for testimony about Epstein on July 23rd.
The effort also called for other high-profile Democrats with expected ties to the late pedophile to be subpoenaed.
Former Attorneys General Eric Holder and Merrick Garland will also be compelled to testify.
So will former special counsel Robert Mueller, who oversaw Trump’s Russia collusion case.
The full list of officials called to appear before House Oversight also includes Former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, Former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Former US Attorney General Eric Holder, Former US Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Former FBI Director James Comey.
I’m all for unsealing the entire Jeffrey Epstein files. I think its our right to know all those who are guilty of having sex with minors, who participated in anything illegal in this manner.
Its rather funny, you never heard a peep from any Democrat of doing this EVER. Now the brave Pinetree Democrat Cult wants it unsealed. Well me too, and you can bet there will be at the very least, twice as many Democrat politicians. And I’m not counting Bill Clinton’s 26 or 28 times a a new Democrat each time.
I want ALL the child rapist perverts to face consequences.
Donald Trump has personally incited more crime in Washington DC than perhaps anyone else living. He pardoned violent criminals who attacked our Capitol and put them back in American communities. He even made a man who was filmed urging the crowd to kill DC police officers a senior adviser at DOJ.
Let’s not stop with the District of Columbia let’s go to all cities with high crime rates let’s clean this country of the trash that has grown with in.Thank You Mr president!
Most dangerous cities:
1. Memphis
Crime Rate: 97.64 crimes per 1,000 people
2. St. Louis
Crime Rate: 87.10 crimes per 1,000 people
3. Little Rock
Crime Rate: 72.08 crimes per 1,000 people
Los Angeles has a crime rate of 35.91 crimes per 1,000 people
These sham hearings will not happen .
The highest crime rates are in GOP controlled states.
The oil sector is shutting down, because crude oil prices are at break even prices, and not expected to rise.
The banks are not writing loans to smaller oil patch drillers as in Tx, Ok. the banks see the trend to electricity.
The don needs to join the rest of the world, and embrace the future, which is clean green electricity. not fossil fuels.
Just because the fossil fuel corps donated $millions to the GOP, we will not go back.
A sign of the conservatives is slow to change, ignore the future needs, all to milk the last $ out of their old investments.
This is another BS distraction to make us forget about Epstein!
Maybe Epstein isn’t the topic Tard! Stick to the facts, you and Epstein are of the same ilk, “LOSERS”
The new “Back to school supplies for Tards”. Pencils, paper, ink pens, nor am spray, contraceptives, Billy club, brass knuckles, paint spray for tagging, anti- American phamplets, EBT cards, on and on it goes!
The Tard party is being overrun with “Common Sense” instead of ass kissing criminals, illegals, and do nothing Tard Mayors!
Chicagos mayor is a loser, same with D.C., all Tards, just turning a blind eye to violent crime, now they are all screaming, “Trump is a bully”, no he’s looking at your violent crime stats, which the Tards seem to ignore, and is doing what you were elected to do, “PROTECT THE PEOPLE, NOT THE CRIMINALS”
Crime is the lowest it’s been in 30 years. Hope that helps!
How many of you are aware that Geasy Gavin and his family visited Calaveras Big Trees, the “first partner”, ( his wife), better known as Harvey’s play thing, explained, “ we learned so much”,Gavy even consented to having a picture taken with a character dressed as a TARD!
Yes let’s clean this country of criminals starting with the biggest one of all, Trump.
Too many of our major cities are run by Tards, pushing electing or hiring incompetent “public servants” judged by their skin color, or racial makeup, violent crime maybe acceptable in their neighbor hoods, but not in the majority of the other neighborhoods! These Tard mayors are on notice, wake the F up and serve the people or your police depts are going to get help from someone that cares about the law abiding citizens!
In 50 words or less, using your best imagination, describe what America would look like today had the “Ho “ become president!”
Dc’s homeless are going to Calaveras County, our aboard of Supervisors passed a resolution inviting them with open arms to relocate to Murphys, paid for by you, the taxpayers, win, win for everyone!
The Tards are running out of scams, boys being girls, boys needing tampons, the “green new deal”, pushed by Lurch, getting rid of my choice to buy “gas” or “electric”, “No Bail” criminal system, what’s next Tards, your basically done, no leaders, no agenda, no nothing!